What's it all about?
This unit teaches 6th-8th grade students to make predictions and connections, as well as identifying connections. They will write a persuasive essay and create a poster on a book selection playing the role of a Wilson Library book buyer convincing the other buyers to approve the book they have chosen. They will present their poster during a presentation to the other buyers.
Essential Question:
What's it all about?
Unit Questions:
What reading skills make a good reader?
What connections do you use to help you understand what you read?
What do you do when you don't understand what you just read?
What vocabulary do you use to persuade your peers to agree with you?
Content Questions:
How do you make a prediction?
What text features do you use?
How do you confirm your predictions?
What do you do with questions you have while reading?
What is a text to text, text to self, and text to world connection?
What would you say to your friends to get them to agree with you?
This unit teaches 6th-8th grade students to make predictions and connections, as well as identifying connections. They will write a persuasive essay and create a poster on a book selection playing the role of a Wilson Library book buyer convincing the other buyers to approve the book they have chosen. They will present their poster during a presentation to the other buyers.
Essential Question:
What's it all about?
Unit Questions:
What reading skills make a good reader?
What connections do you use to help you understand what you read?
What do you do when you don't understand what you just read?
What vocabulary do you use to persuade your peers to agree with you?
Content Questions:
How do you make a prediction?
What text features do you use?
How do you confirm your predictions?
What do you do with questions you have while reading?
What is a text to text, text to self, and text to world connection?
What would you say to your friends to get them to agree with you?